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At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.
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At least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marlin made up an over/under double rifle for me in this caliber, using the now defunct Model 90 action in 20-gauge size.
At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.
At the same time the orchestra announced that next season it would be giving twenty-five programs at Carnegie, and that it would be taking these concerts to the suburbs, repeating each of them in five different communities.
At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.
At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.
At a casino blackjack table, the dealer faces five to seven playing positions from behind a semicircular table.
At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).
At each of the corners, a 1 m radius quarter-circle is drawn, and a dotted line is painted parallel to the shortline and five metres away from it without extending into the penalty area.
At 6: 30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196.
At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.
At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.
At the time of Columbus arrival in 1492, the island's territory consisted of five chiefdoms: Marién, Maguá, Maguana, Jaragua, and Higüey.
At the age of five, Deng was sent to a traditional Chinese-style private primary school, followed by a more modern primary school at the age of seven.
At one point in 1945 – 46, Doris ( as vocalist with the Les Brown Band ) had five Top Ten Hits on the Billboard Hall of Fame.
At the same time, he mentioned that certain other books, including five deuterocanonical books but also the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas, while not being part of the canon, " were appointed by the Fathers to be read ".
At the University of Bologna, from its founding in the 12th century until the end of the 20th century, the only degree conferred was the doctorate, usually earned after five years of intensive study after secondary school.
At the top is a suspender of five graduated gold rays.
At one point, there were as many as five sharers of the imperium ( see: Tetrarchy ).
At least five genera are recognised, but only a single species from one genus is still alive, the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.
At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.
At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a convent school in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended.
At the Grand Guignol, patrons would see five or six plays, all in a style which attempted to be brutally true to the theatre's naturalistic ideals.
On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving At Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.
At and o'clock
`` At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time ''.
At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.
At four o'clock in the afternoon.
At and night
At night, when Mama would turn back the covers, she would have to take all the dolls off the bed and place them elsewhere for the night.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.
At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.
At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.
At the site of some of the protests, police have used tear gas, pepper spray, concussion grenades, rubber and wooden bullets, night sticks, water cannons, dogs, and horses to repel the protesters.
At the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet in 1824 as an improvement on night writing.
At night, a desert bandit named Lo ( Chang Chen ) breaks into Jen's bedroom and asks her to leave with him.
At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Dr. Christopher Syn became the " Scarecrow ", the feared head of the smugglers.
At this wedding, Charles meets Carrie for the first time and spends the night with her.
At the same time, Isidore's works also gave the views of sphericity, for example, in chapter 28 of De Natura Rerum, Isidore claims that the sun orbits the earth and illuminates the other side when it is night on this side.
At 17: 00, Gott ordered 5th Indian Infantry Division to execute a night attack to capture the western half of Ruweisat ridge and Deir el Shein.
At White's funeral, Parsons and Bernie Leadon launched into an impromptu touching rendition of " Farther Along "; that night, the distraught and drunken musician reportedly informed Phil Kaufman of his final wish: to be cremated in Joshua Tree.
At night the F layer is the only layer of significant ionization present, while the ionization in the E and D layers is extremely low.
At night the E layer rapidly disappears because the primary source of ionization is no longer present.
At lower altitudes, the increased temperature is like day and night, literally: like starting the morning at the highland daytime high, and then adding the heat of the day, again.
At its apex was positioned a mirror which reflected sunlight during the day ; a fire was lit at night.
At night Sextus entered her bedroom by stealth, quietly going around the slaves who were sleeping at her door.
At the banquet, Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment.
At night, in the king ’ s palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth ’ s strange habit of sleepwalking.
At nearby Gauldwell Castle ( now only with one partial wall left standing ) Mary, Queen of Scots, is reputed to have spent the night.
At one point in her life, Cardinal Richelieu offered fifty thousand crowns for a night in her bed.
At higher elevations from, the Puna ecoregion, the temperature varies from during the night versus during the day.
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